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| Introduction | |
| Physics and the scientific method | |
| Physics and mathematics | |
| Physics and technology | |
| Science and Society | |
| Mechanics | |
| Dynamics and Newton's Laws | |
| Forces and Newton's first law | |
| Momentum and Newston's second law | |
| Action and reaction: Newton's third law | |
| Motion in three dimensions | |
| Friction | |
| Momentum and energy | |
| Conservation of momentum | |
| Centre of mass motion | |
| Conservation on energy | |
| Kinetic energy | |
| Collisions | |
| Potential energy | |
| Power | |
| Rotation | |
| Rotational energy | |
| The moment of inertia of a rigid body | |
| Angular momentum and the rotational equation of motion | |
| Centrifugal and cetripetal forces | |
| Conservation of angular momentum | |
| Combined rotational and translational motion | |
| Tops and gyroscopes | |
| Gravity and orbital motion | |
| Graviational forces | |
| Circular orbits | |
| Kepler's laws and panetary orbits | |
| Comets and space probes | |
| Vibrations and Waves | |
| Periodic motion | |
| Simple harmonic motion | |
| Damped simple harmonic motion | |
| Force oscillations | |
| Resonance and power absorption | |
| Linear superposition | |
| Fourier series | |
| Normal modes | |
| Waves | |
| Wave on taut strings | |
| Wave velocity | |
| Energy in waves | |
| Dispersion | |
| Group velocity | |
| Standing waves | |
| Attenuation of waves | |
| Wave phenomena | |
| Sound waves | |
| Electromagnetic waves | |
| Refraction | |
| Reflection | |
| Doppler effects | |
| Diffraction | |
| Interference | |
| Wave focussing and ray optics | |
| Quantum Physics | |
| The origins of quantum physics | |
| The constituents of matter | |
| Light waves and photons | |
| Wave-particle duality | |
| Electron and neutron diffraction | |
| The uncertainty principle | |
| The Schrodinger Equation | |
| Wave functions for plane waves | |
| Interpretation of the wave function | |
| The Shcrodinger equation | |
| Waves in a box | |
| The quantum harmonic oscillator | |
| The correspondence principle | |
| The Microscopic world of quantum mechanics | |
| Atomic structure | |
| Molecular vibrational and rotational spectra | |
| Nuclei and the strong interaction | |
| Radioactivity and the weak interaction | |
| Properties of Matter | |
| Thermal physics | |
| Thermal equilibrium | |
| Temperature and thermometers | |
| Energy in thermal physics | |
| The perfect gas law and absolute temperature | |
| Specific heats for a perfect gas | |
| Kinetic theory of gases | |
| The Boltzmann distribution | |
| Equpartion and degress of freedom | |
| The Maxwell velocity distribution | |
| Perfect and imperfect gases | |
| Viscosity and diffusion | |
| Properties of liquids and solids | |
| Interatomic forces | |
| Latent heat | |
| Elasticity: bulk modules and Young's modulus | |
| Thermal expansion | |
| Critical phenomena | |
| Electricity an | |
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